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Category Archives: God
#blogElul 2017 – Day 18: Ask
Praying is asking humbly for help. Preface with please always follow with gratitude. Please God watch over my child. Please God help me breathe. Please God free me from rage. Please God lift hatred and fear. Please God let me … Continue reading
Posted in Elul, God, Healing, Jewish, Judaism, Poems, Prayer Poems
Tagged Achat Sha'alti, ask, BlogElul, Elul, fear, guide my steps, hatred, humility, prayer, Psalm 27, rage
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#blogElul 2017 – Day 16: Pray
I thank you, God, for all these things: For my baby; my brilliant, beautiful baby from whom Your light emanates. Thank you for Your gentle ruach that created her miraculous entry … Continue reading
Posted in Elul, God, Healing, Jewish, Judaism, Poems, Prayer Poems
Tagged baby, Bashert, BlogElul, community, Elul, family, God, guide her steps, Modim Anachnu Lach, Pray, rage, ruach
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#blogElul 2017 – Day 14: Learn
Learning is my passion As it was for my mother before me As it is for my daughter after me. Matters intellectual fascinate me Science, though unfathomable, sparks my brain … Continue reading
Posted in Elul, God, Jewish, Judaism, Observations, Poems
Tagged anxiety, baby steps, BlogElul, curiosity, Elul, enervating, guide my steps, learn, mistakes, starting afresh, upward spiral
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#blogElul 2017 – Day 12: Count
Too many times My child couldn’t count on me To hold my temper To count to ten. Too many times My spouse couldn’t count on me To not snap To take a breath. Too many times Drivers who got in … Continue reading
#blogElul 2017 – Day 11: Trust
I like to think of myself as trustworthy, a stalwart ally, omnipresent in times of need. Truth be told too many times my actions have eroded others’ trust in me. How can one have faith in a sibling, a parent, … Continue reading
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Tagged BlogElul, Elul, faith, guide my steps, peace, Please God, rage run amok, trust, trustworthy
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#BlogElul 2017 – Day 2: Search
Somewhere, there must be a way away from demons devouring the quintessence of my Neshama destroying the marrow growing the cells of love and kindness drinking my lifeblood vampires on a feeding orgy leaving only an empty shell. Please, God, … Continue reading
#blogExodus – Day 9: Bitter
Bitter herbs – maror – that’s the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about “bitter” in the context of Exodus, and the upcoming Seder. Maror – representing the bitterness of slavery suffered by our ancestors. A life of … Continue reading
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Tagged #blogExodus, Bitter, bittersweet, charoseth, faith, freedom, God, Israelites, maror, Moses, Once we were slaves now we are free, oppression, Seder, tears
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#blogExodus – Day 8: Rise
After the first seven days of this #blogExodus exercise, I have come to see that there’s a little bit of everything in the Exodus story. Rising initially arises in the story as a taboo. God commands the Israelites, when they’re … Continue reading
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Tagged #blogExodus, Egypt, faith, freedom, God, Israelites, Moses, Mt. Sinai, Nachshon, Pharaoh, Seder, Ten Commandments
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#blogExodus – Day 7: Ask
I’ve been sitting here, racking (not wracking, for the grammarians among us) my brain about how to link “ask” with Exodus. While I saw a lot of “telling,” which I wrote about last night, I didn’t notice much asking. Exodus … Continue reading
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Tagged #blogExodus, ask, Egypt, Four Questions, freedom, God, Israelites, Pharaoh, questions, relevance, Seder, tell
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